46 Pages By Thomas Paine Analysis

In “46 Pages” the author Scott Liell argues the importance of the pamphlet "Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine on February 10, 1776. Liell goes through different stages of Thomas Paine's life to help us, readers, understand this British man born on January 29, 1737. He experienced many difficulties watching his first wife died, having different jobs he even was a pirate for some years, all the things he experimented who caused a significant impact on his life and made him see things from a different point of view. His father religion helped to give him a good moral education. His parents try to give him a good education but unfortunately, he was not able to learn Latin, it was required to continue further but those eight years of learning …show more content…
Even before writing "Common Sense" it looked a lot as if Paine was already angry towards the Crown, and the conflicts that had begun before he traveled to America. Once he was living in his adopted homeland, he understood that the colonists had an immense love for the king. They were only blaming the wrong stuff on the parliament; the reason was that the colonists saw themselves as British citizens and didn't see the British government as a foreign oppressor, they did not want independence at that time until Common Sense. Pained worked for Pennsylvania Magazine and gained experience before writing his masterpiece. It amazes how "Common Sense" made such a huge impact on this 13 colonies and how this was the beginning of the Independence of American from the British Government I do not even think he thought of just how important this was going to become. It was the way Thomas Paine wrote it, what made such a big impact. He was so fearless and passionate, and he had learned how to write for Americans. Thomas wrote directly to a mass audience, making it original, he wrote it for them, tried to make it as affordable as possible. Paine encouraged printers everywhere to publish their edition of common